TRANSGRESSIONS

Artist Statement﻿﻿There is a curiosity that ensues when we see fluorescent colored public workers on the streets and highways. The actions these anonymous public workers are committing are ritualistic; qualities of destruction, construction or rudimentary maintenance of this cement infrastructure we live in. I am working with acrylic paint and colored pencil. My intent is to capture a slower read of theseactions that change our landscape. With color I try to infract space not only through the plasticityof paint, but by giving a sense of light that depicts an ambiguous time of day. Throughout thecompositions there are subtle warm and cool shifts that fragment man from environment. Theprocess of painting these scenes have a willful and ardent intent. Often the perspective of theviewer is one that is voyeuristic and watching a scene in process. Emanation is highly symbolicof time in action.Wearing these suits, these individuals put on the persona of any other worker, and continue to commit someone else's plans for public space. I want to bring more awareness to the change in public landscape, and look closer at the actions being committed to upkeep this cemented controlled infrastructure we live in.